User:Pgallert

Hi.
My private editing activities concentrate on Southern African, primarily Namibian topics. Occasionally I stumble across inaccuracies in other subject areas which I then attempt to repair.

I teach computer networking at Namibia University of Science and Technology in Windhoek. In this role I have a few Wikipedia assignments because there currently is no second active Wikipedian at my institution. Among these "official" tasks are: Past and upcoming events: Schedule
 * When someone in Namibia requests a public lecture, training, or some general information on Wikipedia it will usually be me to deliver it.
 * I am the inofficial campus ambassador of Namibia University of Science and Technology. I coordinated a mandatory Wikipedia assignment from 2010 to 2012. We had to stop it due to excessive copyright violations; the assignment is now voluntary.
 * I give technical assistance to our translators into OshiNdonga, Juǀ'hoan, Otjiherero, and Khoekhoe.
 * Whenever our research projects lead us to remote rural schools in Namibia I bring an offline Wikipedia with me.

Links

 * Main space contributions
 * Did-you-know hooks
 * My voting at RfA
 * Awards
 * Essays:
 * On IAR
 * On reliable sources,
 * On plagiarism
 * User space drafts that one day will become articles (feel free to help with them; it is a wiki, after all)
 * User:Pgallert/Independence of Namibia
 * User:Pgallert/Goreangab Water Reclamation Plant
 * Email me

Sister projects
I infrequently contribute to Commons, Wikivoyage, German Wikipedia, and the Incubator, and I have some presence on Meta in form of a research project and the preparation of several blog posts.

Alternative accounts
I have created a new account for teaching how to create new accounts, and I might do so again if the look-and-feel of new accounts differs too much from that of established ones. I do not intend to edit much from these:
 * Pg new1 (talk) 18:46, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Pg new2 (talk) 14:02, 28 May 2014 (UTC) for a small video project on getting started with Wikipedia
 * Pg new3 (talk) 05:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC) in preparation of an editathon at our university
 * Pg new4 (talk) 18:46, 14 August 2020 (UTC) for a video editathon during COVID-19 lockdown

Countries I've been to
🇦🇷 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇼 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇭🇷 🇩🇰 🇪🇬 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇬🇭 🇭🇰 🇭🇺 🇮🇹 🇰🇪 🇱🇸  🇲🇼 🇲🇽 🇲🇿 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇸🇬 🇸🇰 🇸🇮 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇨🇭   🇺🇸 🇻🇦 🇿🇲 🇿🇼

I was born in, witnessed (and helped) its reunification into 🇩🇪, and then emigrated for 🇳🇦

Some things I wish I had said
All ripped out of their context, and some emphases or links added. In chronological order.
 * "The theory that I find most credible as an explanation of the decline of the community since 2007 is the end of the 'SoFixIt' culture and its replacement by the templating culture which [...] has lead to hundreds of thousands of articles disfigured by garish templates calling attention to problems that somebody hopes someone else will understand and fix." --- WereSpielChequers, Nov 2011.
 * "The First Law of Holes remains good advice even if you think it is unfair that you are in the hole or you are unsure why you are there [...] if an arbitration case is opened with your username as the casename, you may be in some sort of a hole." --- Newyorkbrad, Aug 2016